Anitta Reveals Funk Generation Album Release Date, Shares New “Double Team” Video: Watch

Anitta has revealed the release date for her long-teased album Funk Generation. The new album is out April 26 (via Republic Records and Universal Music Latin Entertainment). The Brazilian pop star has also shared the new song “Double Team,” featuring Brray and Bad Gyal. Watch the video for the single below. “Funk Generation is an … Read more

So Help Me Todd’s Marcia Gay Harden & Skylar Astin Join Celeb Friends for Trip to the Bahamas for Restaurant Opening! | Adrien Brody, Alex Lundqvist, Amber Ruffin, Cynthia Rowley, Georgina Chapman, Jennifer Esposito, Katie Couric, Marcia Gay Harden, Nico Tortorella, Nolan Gerard Funk, Ryan Cooper, Skylar Astin, Tony Danza | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Before getting to work on season two of their CBS series So Help Me Todd, co-stars Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin took a trip to the Bahamas alongside a bunch of other celebs! The actors were in attendance at the grand opening of Michelin-starred chef Michael White‘s new restaurant Paranza at The Cove, which … Read more

How Arab Funk Is Going Global

In London’s Jazz Cafe, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum’s song Alf Leila Wleila is reverberating around an atmosphere of anticipation. Fragments of light are reflecting off the Camden venue’s rotating disco ball—lighting up the faces of an intimate crowd who are waiting, drinks in hand, for Berlin record label Habibi Funk’s first live … Read more

Soul, Jazz, And Funk Masterpieces

Roy Ayers is a hugely influential musical pioneer who changed people’s perceptions of the vibraphone. First commercially produced in 1924, the vibraphone is an electric-powered tuned percussion instrument played with mallets whose sound is glassy and tinkling. It was almost exclusively associated with the world of straight-ahead jazz until the 1970s when Ayers placed the … Read more